Cash payments for veterans
To address one of the most pressing demands of Great War veterans, the Canadian government during the Second World War passed the War Service Grants Act, which gave all veterans a lump sum cash payment based on their length and place of service, rank, and family size.
Canada, National Defence - Army, Notes on the War Service Grants Act, 1944 (Ottawa, August 1944)
WSG 1944.pdf
(54.7 MB)
booklet, 8 pages, 16.5cm x 24.7cm
War, Memory and Popular Culture Archives - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
Second World War